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o T he M onmouth H erald Vol. XIV No. 12 M om nouth, F'olk C ounty, O re g o n , F rid ay , N o v em b er 25. 1921 There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley % met the Vices and the Yirtuts and W inter's Storm < V ■- • after much thought chose to stay with the Vices. It was not long ahead Of Season until tiie Vice* deserted the Pil - w grim, but soon Steadfast came back I It hardly seems possible that A large group of students, some for him and they went happily on while we have not yet had a frost what more than half of the whole their way. severe enough to take all the lea\e3 number, left Tuesday to spend the ■\\ from the trees, within seventy five Thanksgiving recess at their vari N in eteen T w en tyo n e V isit F a lls C ity miles of us the ice lies a foot thick ous homes. Daunted by prospects of wet on the Columbia highway and at Carrying out the custom of pre weather there was not a \ery large Gresham, peach and orchard trtes HANKSCIVING DAY vious years, the Better O. N. S. attendance at the meeting of the have been broken down under the shares with Christmas Committee has been organized with Polk Co. Odd Fellows’ visiting aaao- weight of three inches of ice. The the distinction of being the following officers: Chairman, ciation at Falls City Tuesday night. conditions were quite similar to the two religious holidays Mildred Howell; Secretary-treasui - Monmouth had the largest lepresen- those which overwhelmed us two of the year! the remain er, Jeffie Beckham; Reporter, Dor- tation, 18, and there were 14 .visit years ago. A cold storm coming der being political or othy Taylor. The ¡other members ors from Dallas and 2 from Balls- down the Columbia gorge from the social. It is a heritage of the committee are: Naomi Hag - 1 ton. Independence listened to an mountains met the moisture laden from our New England ensen, Marguerite Hansen, Bessie unfavorable report about roads and winds from the southwestern sees. ancestors and is associat Hunter, Mabel Siollar, Leona Good did not go at all. Offietrs of the Only this time the warm w inds were ed alike with the coming ing, Nina Needham, Aletha Kidby, association were re-elected as fol stronger. It surely was some storm of colder weather and the lows: H. K. Sickafoose. chairman and Everett Evans. that swept down the valley Satur close of the harvest. The Juniors, as a class, collected and J. Richter of Dallas, secretary day, Sunday and Monday. Rain Monmonth has many things for which to The Falls City $26.00 for the Near East relief and treasurer. fell in sheets, the Willamette and he thankful. We have had good crops: fund aside from the individual gifts brethren gave the visitors a very its tributary streams rose with there are none who are needy In our midst. pleasant time. The next meeting of many of its members. startling rapidity. Feople living The Normal School has passed the crisis of of the association will he at Balls- along the Luckiarnute say that a change of administration and fronts the President and Mrs. Landers have ton on December 21. stream has not been as high in future with bright prospects. Of the civic been spending the week at Eugene. many years. A temporary bridge life of the city it may also he said that we Mr. Landers spoke on Monday and G u a rd ia n A p p o in te d on the road south was washtd out a<"e facing the daylight with cheerfulness Tuesday at the Lane County insti The petition for the ap|>ointment and the supports of the new bridges and well grounded optimism. While thank tute and visited his brother in that of a guardian for herself was filed threatened. ful for |>ast favors we may hope for a con vicinity the latter part of the in the countv court. Saturday by An approach to a bridge on the tinuation of harmony that with a united week. Mrs. Bessie Alderman of Mon- j main line of the Southern Facific front we may meet and overcome the civic Miss Campbell and Miss Mingus mouth, Oregon. Mrs. Alderman near Jefferson was washe I out and obstacles as they appear attended the lectures on “Current states in her petition that she is in through trains were routed by way Poetry and Drama” given in Port capable of handling money and of the west side. Mails from all di land last Friday and Saturday by property which she recently inher rections were late. Locally there Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Vol- ited from her mother. Elizabeth was very little damage the most kenburg. Clarke, and her father, Robert serious being ¡the washing out of Miss Muriel Paul of McMinnville Clarke, of the probable value of the pipe line at one place where it who was*graduated Jrom the Nor $2500 anJ that if she receives the crosses Teal Creek. mal last June, attended the dancing property to handle personally, it At Sheridan the Yamhill over party and visited friends at the will be taken over by her husband, flowed its hanks, flooded store Albert E. Alderman, and would he F ill is In ta c t Dormitory last week end. buildings and even washed a num Lumber Industry Gymnasium Proposal wasted or used in an incompetent Reports from the flooded I.uckia- ber of buildings from their founda The plays presented by the class manner as he is likewise incapable In Complete Action Decisively Defeated mute are to the effect that the crest tions. The worst damage reported in Drar»>ati<> Art under the direc of handling hisaffairs and educating has passed and the water will soon is in the vicinity of Potrland where tion cf Miss Godbold last Wednes the children. be within the banks of the stream. the real battle of the elements took day evening reflected much credit The petition requests that the The logging and lumber industry Voters in District .No. 13 sat Some doubts were entertained place. Accumulations of ice stalled on the players and their coach. court appoint Mrs. Belle Sullivan ¡n Folk county is now enjoying tl e down upon the project of building about the big fill on the further automobiles until they had to he Three one act plays, “ Uncle Jim and Retta Hamer, her sisters, as greatest boom ever experienced in a high school gymnasium Juring the side of the bridge as there was dan abandoned, pulled down telephone my” by Zona Gale, “The Klepto guardians of her estate and that this region. At Black Rock £00 coining year at the budget meeting ger this large mass of loose earth wires, caused buildings to cave in. maniac” by Margaret Cameron, and she desires said guardians to handle men are getting out approximately Tuesday afternoon. The meeting might get to washing and be lost; Trains to and from the east were “ The Land of Heart’s Desire” by her inheritance in such manner that 350,000 feet of logs daily. Fifty which was held in the high school but it has held in what was the stalled and steamboats were sent William Butler Yeats, furnished a it will he used to keep her and her per cent of these are sawed into auditorium was perhaps the most highest Hood in years. The only up the river laden with large forc well balanced program and gave family and assist in the proper ed lumber at Dallas, and the balanct largely attended of any held in a damage is at the farther end of the es of men for the rescue work. The sufficient opportunity for the dis ucation of her children. A Lind is taken to Winona, dumped into long time. fill where an overflow bridge is be first trains through were routed play of the varied abilities of the was filed by the two sisters in the the Willamette river and floated to Chairman Powell explained the ing put in. Here the end of the north through the mountains of members of the casts. The parts sum of $5000 and was approved by Salem and there milled by the C. purpose of the meeting which was grade sustained some damage and Washington. were well taken ,the stage settings the court who directed that the K. Spaulding company. in two sections; the consideration part of the bridge work has been attractive, and the music appropri During Saturday and Sunday it guardians have the property ap Out in the woods on the Valsetz of the budget for operating expen undone. The pile driver which was ate. It was. all in all, a most ex praised by Ira C. Powell, George T. & Siletz railroad about 200 men ses of the school and also considera being used was picked up and car is estimated that 5 inches of rain cellent entertainment and a com Boothby and O. A. Wolverton, are employed and the result of tion of a second budget proposal, ried into Steele’s field. fell in this vicinity, an amount fortable sum was added to the pi.ino equal to the average amount of three competent men of Monmouth, their daily output is in the neigh that of raising $1300 as the first fund from the proceeds. and that they dispose of the prop borhood of 250,000 feet of logs. year’s installment on the building November rainfall. A motion picture, “ Nineteen erty that is in their estimation nec One third of these are handled at of a gymnasium to cost not more Rumored, Reported W. J. Miller brought in this week and Phyllis,” will be shown in the essary and make a report to the the mills at Valsetz and Hoskins than $6,000. a branch from a raspberry bush on chapel on Saturday evening No\ em county court as to their business and de ivertd to the Southern Paci- Concocted, Collected Ballot on the first proposition which are the green and ripe ber ber 26 th. transactions, rendering an account fic in the finished product at Crisp. was taken orally and there was no Rev. Feter Conklin arrived safely ries. These raspberries, he says, a— - The balance is delivered to the op|K»sition to it. This calls for a Several members of the faculty once a year. - Capital Journal. on Saturday from his eastern trip. Southern Pacific company in logs tax levy of $9,525.30 which is con He was seriously sick while in the have been yielding since summer. are spending the Thanksgiving va The attention of the reader is Mr. Miller planted sweet corn cation with relatives and friends in called to the announcement of the for movement to Falls City and Sa siderably greater than the special east and for a time was under the among his late potatoes and has had lem for cutting up. tax of last year and was made nec care of a skilled physician and a various parts ot the state. a supply of “ roasting ears” which entertainment in the Evangelical The Willamette valley lumber essary by increasing costs and a trained nurse. Yet he made the still continues. Several report church as described in the notes of The Vespertine Society put on company and the Spaulding Lumber deficit of the year before. trip back in good shajie with less picking strawberries the past week. that church. It promieses to be their second program last Friday Company both have logging roads The chairman then railed atten trouble than the journey east*. evening. The first number was a good. running out of Black Rock, one on tion to the next item of business This may have lieen because he went Thos. Boulden has tomato vines on which there are still blossoms and playlet coached by Charlotte Balhn. When Marshal Andrus and (’has. each side of the canyon and in or before the meeting which wa< the by the Northerh Facific and re green and ripe fruit. With flow It was a scene from a story by O. Stewart and Jas. liink ^accompani der to go up the mountain sides, proposed special tax of $1300. He turned by the Great Northern ers in abundance in all directions Henry, "By Courier” , set in Mon ed Fred Gradke to Dallas recently they are required to use "switch- explained that the hoard planned which does not reach as high eleva why should we worry? If any has mouth Park and the characters the latter expressed consideration hacks,’ on account of the excessive the project to cost $6,000 of which tions. a better story to tell, let us hear it. were: Bessie Hunter, Ruth Nick- for his parrot and gave Jas. Hinklt grades. The logs are brought into $1,000 and accumulated interest son, and Charlotte Ballin. The a dollar with which to buy food for Black Rock from a distance of was to be paid each year. He Elbert Rede, editor of the Cot High water along the Luckiarnute second number was a short dramat it. When the three first named re about 12 to 15 •piles. called for expressions of opinion tage Grove Sentinel and president is an annual event but this season s 'I he mill at Falls ( ity employs from the voters, ization of "Bluebeard” . The main turned to Monmouth they promptly of the State Editorial Association performance has gone the average characters were: Helen Michelson.j went to the Gradke place to hunt 175 men and has an output of ! (j T. Boothby likened the train- and Mr. Hurd, one of the publish one better. Some interesting side Gladys Currey, Lilly Nyquist, Myr up the parrot and feed it. In the 130,000 feet daily. The Dallas ing of a boy or girl to the training ers of the Corvallis Gazette Times lights on the flood are found in our tle and Marie Birchet. Gladys Har course of their visit to the place mill employs 175 men and has a of a shepherd dog which if given were visitors *at the Herald office Elkins correspondence. desty, Caroline Berry, Emily Wood they incidentally forced open a daily output of 140,00« feet. At enough physical exercise was' easy Tuesday afternoon. man and Letha Stauler. The coach woodshed do.»r which was secured Valsetx and Hoskins, located on the to handle hut shut <>r held without W. S. Landis of Northern Idaho, es of this play were Frances Ingal with a padlock. The padlock was Valley & Siletz railroad, 340 men a chance for exercise became a hard is a viistor this week with his sis The official apnraisal and inven and EuniceCowgill. The third and damaged and Mr. Gradke complain are employed in the nulls, which thing to manage. AlvaCraxen and tory of the estate of John Moran ters, Mrs. Sarah Hager and Mrs. last number was a Thanksgiving ed to the prosecuting attorney have a daily production of approxi Mrs. Mack presented reasons for has just been completed and it is Ebbert. He has also lieen visiting program put on by a number of the about it. Mr. Stewart was there mate! 225,000 feet of lumber. building the gymnasium and acting found his sole estate amounts to with his sister. Mrs. E. A. Ladi w Vespertine girls and coached by upon summoned to the county seat on suggestion of H. K. Sickafoose $7175. In partnership with I. L. at Falls City, getting into Polk Ma>-* Mille^and Florence Hudson. and now with Marshal Andrus is A part of a still found on the the chair explained that the gymna Fatterson his estate was $3667 and county just ahead of the storm. The setting for the play was in a threatened with indictment by the his partnership estate with Mrs. Mr. Landis has not been here since primary room. The teacher told grand jury. Which apinars to be farm of Clarence Crowne was con- sium like the public i-chool building M. A. Stine is appraised at $11,330. 1896,. He had been working in her children the story of “ The one of the ways in which justice fiscated by Sheriff Orr in a raid was according to law for the use of the Coeur d’Alene mines which aie Giant Pumpkin” , after which the [ | works ii. Folk county. made in Dallas recently and turned ! (he public for community needs closed down for the winter, await On Tuesday, November 29, the seventh grade children gave them over to the federal auth* rities in when it was not in use for school ing a more settled condit on of county branch library hoards and Social Hoar Clnb a short program. Next, the eighth affairs. While Mr. I and is never Portland. No arrest was made. purposes. librarians are to hold an annual grade gave a play, “ The Little Pil - 1 The Social Hour Club will meet lived here he was a frequent visitor Sheriff Orr being unable to find A ballot was then taken and the meeting in the library building in gTiin.” In this play the Little Pi|- •^r*- ^ J. Muikey, December years ago. any liqu« r in Brow ne's poi-esstoti. proposition was defeated 46 to 30. Dallas. grim stopped at an Inn and here Items of Interest At Oregon Normal v; m THANKSGIVING